The custodian of India's Ajmer Sharif Dargah — the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer — defended the Modi government's campaign against cow slaughter, calling upon Muslims across the country to quit eating beef, the Hindustan Times reported...
Cows are considered sacred in Hindu-majority India, and their slaughter is illegal in most states...
HYDERABAD: An angry mob in southern India attacked two low-caste cousins who they suspected of slaughtering a cow, police said Wednesday, the latest such attack by self-styled protectors of the animals...
Mokati Elisha and Mokati Venkateshwar Rao from India's lowest Dalit caste were tied to a tree and beaten up on Monday by a mob of around 50 men when they were skinning a dead cow in a village in Andhra Pradesh state...
The two men, 55-year-old Mohammad Shafiq and 27-year-old Mohammad Kalam, were skinning a cow when they were accused of slaughtering the animal...
After the police succeeded in rescuing Shafiq and Kalam, the mob loaded the cow onto a cart and paraded it through Karhal...
SRINAGAR: Protesters in India-held Kashmir clashed with security forces during the funeral a Muslim conductor who was attacked 10 days ago over cow slaughter rumours, Times of India reported on Monday...
Cufew-like restrictions imposed across the Valley after pro-liberation leaders called for a shutdown over death of Zahid, a truck conductor who was injured in a petrol bomb attack over rumours that he had slaughtered a cow...
How then did the converts, who constitute 80-90 per cent of the Muslim population, develop a taste for cow?Atal Bihari Vajpayee invited famous Gandhian scholar Dharampal to research the origins of cow slaughter in India...
The title of the book gives the story away: The British Origin of Cow Slaughter in India...
Rumour has always been a weapon for the anti-cow slaughter movement, as is evident from Akshaya Mukul’s magisterial book, Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India...
After India gained Independence and Jawaharlal Nehru became prime minister, Mukul writes, a delegation of Hindu leaders called on him to demand a ban on cow slaughter...
India's top court Friday rejected a petition seeking a nationwide ban on cow slaughter, a flash point issue for Hindus who consider the animal sacred...
The Supreme Court dismissed an activist's proposal to prohibit the slaughter of cows across India, a measure that would have effectively banned beef consumption in the nation of 1...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat on Friday increased the punishment for cow slaughter from seven years to life imprisonment as Hindu hardliners push for tougher protections for the holy animal...
Under the stiffened penalties passed by Gujarat's state assembly, anyone caught transporting cows for slaughter could also face up to 10 years in jail...
Police in northern India have arrested four people for their alleged involvement in an attack on police over rumours of cow slaughter that left two people dead, including a police official...
Read: India's top court tells government to stop cow vigilantesThe incident took place on Monday in the city of Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh state...
At least 11 'cow vigilantes' have been arrested for brutally attacking a five-member family of nomads in India-held Kashmir, the Deccan Chronicle reported...
Police in Jammu said the mob is a 'self-styled group of cow vigilantes', the Chronicle reported...
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing member Advocate Parimoksh Seth's public interest litigation petition maintained that the slaughter of cows hurt the religious sentiments of certain communities...
He was of the view that cow slaughter was common in the state despite Ranbir Penal Code provisions...
BELGRADE: Ratko Mladic, who faces judgement on Nov 22 (Wednesday) for alleged genocide, believed himself a crusading defender of the Serbs but was dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia” for mass slaughter at the hands of his forces...
The suspects, identified as Bala aka Sargon, Dildar, Akram, Qasim, Sarwar and Riaz, were arrested by the Tando Ghulam Ali police, who booked them under the Slaughter Act...
The police said they travelled to Matli from Multan several years ago and used to buy weak and sick donkeys and other animals to slaughter them and sell their meat for a livelihood...
AGRA: In the backstreets of Agra’s Muslim quarter, where shoes have been made for centuries, small-scale manufacturers are firing workers and families cutting back on spending as a government crackdown on cattle slaughter ripples through the community...
The election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) three years ago has emboldened right-wing Hindu groups to push harder for...
India's top court on Tuesday stayed a nationwide ban imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on the sale of cattle for slaughter that had provoked outcry in many states...
The Supreme Court upheld a decision by a lower court staying the ban imposed in May, which prohibited the sale and purchase of cows ? an animal considered sacred for Hindus ? for slaughter...